The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-12-25
WHAT OGDEN WANTS.
A Few Timely Suggestions for Her
Citizens to Act On.

bOJ u0b Un dCCOuut Vi IAS CiAunIe' bnc
atmosphere, nor the general aspect of
the streets, so much as for the people.
Bricks and mortar, paint and timber,
shrubs and lawns, don't make up q
whole city. A town may be rich in
ecclesiastical buildings, tall trees,
lponderous stores and warehouses in
wen-laids oat gardens and orchards,
and in smiling rivers, and yet be poor
ia all that constitutes true greatness or
renders llfe worThzii9ing.P Paradise be-
fore the advent of Eve was a wilderness
to adam; and the noun tsirs of Greece
to-day, being infested with gangs OF
blood thirsty brigands, are. although
in themselves both salubrious and
beautiful, not exactly desirable sites for
villa residences. No one ,EFizes woman
for her dress nor city for It's sidewalks.
The streets of a city are out the she'll
the kernel is the people. Being no
politician i have no.cause 10 hatter, bHt
it does seem, at least to me that the
people of Ogden are kind, intelligent,
and honest people, aud have the
"oulge" in many ways upon the resi-
dents of some more pretentious cities.
1t may be imagined by some of your
lnhb L AAuSb A6NC cOAuClDluS
nasty to say after all that "taffy." Not
at all. | merely wish to remark how
strange it is that so enterprising-not
to say wealthy-and SO clever a COM
munity as the Junction City undodbse'
edly possess, should tameiy endure the
paucity of pleasures which now strikes
every stranger upon first coming to the
city. Lf# tgN
The Ogden people may consider /
have my share of gall tut, whether
80 or not, will say to you: You are
not dull or an apathetlc people; you
are neither poor nor pHrsimoniOus; you
hsve shown great capacity in organiza-
ton, in business and in sport; you like
to enjoy yourselves, and can take q
holiday as gladly and spend it as well
as any people in the west; and yet, you
nave no truly popular resort for all
C asses to spend together. at all sea-
sons, really happy and pleasant time
in the city. OF course you have Lester
Park. the baseball, football and cricket
you have, too, amateur thea
trical societies and music meetings, an
excellent brass band and good string
instrumentalists-ell good in their way,
but not sufficient for a stirring and
rapidly rising city like Ogden.
Baseball and football are not for any
one; cricket is open to similar obiec
ton. Your park is chilly and cherries
in winter and little more than languid
promenade in summer. True, your
Young Mems anu Young Ladies
Mutual improvement Associations are
interesting, butthere is always hushed
decorum about them that points more
to the school thar this play ground.
Then, again you have your dRucing
halls, but, although aancing is an ex-
celient pastime per Sc, it is for the
young. Alas, that we cannot be very
Young: bat time tries ALL and many of
supple enough, nor presence sufficiently
pleasing to be suitable partners for
pretty and sprightly damsels.
Grabbed age and youth cannot dance TO-
Youth is full of pleassnce, age if full of care.
Besides have We no dignity, have we
no corns, are We not portly and of
sober hearing. Well, you see, there is
q void. an aching VOID. The amuse
ments you have are good in their differ
ent ines, but they are none.of them all
that you want, nor what y on all want.
Now, may be told that there is the
Union Opera House. know It; but do
you not think that the high-sOunding
title ''Opera House" handy rec m
penses for the tack of opera or the
presence OF at least some of the ''staIs 3"
that sail around the dramatic tiruia
ment2 The authority on matters
theatrical, The San Francisco Figaro,
remarks, in speaking of your Opers
louise. that it will hold about 500, but
6 place TO beavoided." A nice com
piiment to Ogden's great-shati say
only place of amusement where all
classes can congregate together?
Why, ask, should you be content
with this sort of thing? You follow me
while I ask. another question, Why,
should you not have right u Ogden
some palace Of Delight" open To all
classes, every day. the year round? !
say, why should You not have this
thing2 You have the money,
you have the spirit. and you have
proved that roa have power for
organization. Will you then be
content to gitldly by, wishing and wish
ing, but never striving. that some AlAd'
din, with his wonderful-fsInp, will arise
and present you with palace wherein
you Can all meet aud enjoy tho cres-
lloOs OF Tie buluIuR SeHiUsSS VI to0 past
and repeRis ages?
You have but to lay yeur practical
heads together and set your sturdy
the wheel, and you may
be masters of such hall of recreation
as no city in Utah need be ashamed 1.
A vast and airy building, well lighted,
tastefuiiy decorated, -beautlfied with
exotic plants and feathery flowers. A
hall. hung with fine pictures, with
q cbncer, platform at one end and n
taeatne at The other. And that you
might have such place, and might
maistaju il without loss, may ba but 4
dream on my part: it is, however such
4 pleasant dream that am ioath e. / e.
Iieve but that it is already practic al
realty.
OF course, there are difficulties In the |
way of such an enterprise. But Is |
Ogdsn TO finch at difficulties? No! | |
rather think act. Let few OF her |
'esuing men form themselves into a |
send out prospectuses for |
he formation o. q co-apaky, with the |
smount per share snfticiently low 20 |
.ltoW OF ths working people |